Born in an Illinois log cabin in 1887, John W. Allen grew up in Hamilton and Saline counties. After graduating from the eighth grade at Hardscrabble School, Allen served as a teacher and an administrator in southern Illinois public schools for twenty-seven years, and as the historical director of the University Museum at Southern Illinois University for sixteen years. From 1953 to 1967 Allen wrote a weekly series of articles about southern Illinois that were circulated by more than three hundred newspapers.
Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xvii |
Individuals | p. 3 |
Washington Never Slept Here | |
Thomas Posey | |
Pierre Menard | |
Conrad Will | |
A Broken Friendship | |
Dr. George Fisher | |
James Hall | |
Ned Buntline | |
Lafayette | |
Two Confederates | |
Lincoln at Jonesboro | |
Lincoln for President | |
Ann Rutledge | |
John A. Logan | |
The Great Agnostic | |
William Jennings Bryan | |
Senator Borah | |
William Newby | |
Names | p. 40 |
Egypt and Suckers | |
Places Must Have Names | |
Counties and County Seats | |
A Migrant County Seat | |
Folklore | p. 52 |
By Word of Mouth | |
A Phantom Funeral | |
Witches | |
Lakey's Ghost | |
Birds, Beasts, Insects, and Weather | |
Frogs and Toads | |
Roosters | |
Winter Weather | |
Snow | |
Thunder and Lightning | |
The Moon Is Being Ignored | |
Tall Tales | |
A Coon Tree | |
The First of May | |
Advice for the Lovelorn | |
June Weddings | |
Shivaree | |
Home Remedies | |
Snake Bites | |
Warts | |
Madstone | |
Signs of the Zodiac | |
Water Witching | |
Alan Bane | |
Doors | |
Indians | p. 99 |
Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Toolshed | |
Indian Pictures and Inscriptions | |
Forts or Pounds? | |
Bird of Evil Spirit | |
Legend of Tower Rock | |
Pontiac | |
William Biggs | |
Who Killed Tecumseh? | |
The Trail of Tears | |
Early Travel | p. 117 |
The First Roadways | |
Land of Goshen | |
Hazards of Travel | |
The Legend of Willie Potts | |
End of a Long Trail | |
Halfway House | |
Covered Bridges | |
Livery Stables | |
Early Business Activities | p. 132 |
The Gallatin Salines | |
Half Moon Lick | |
Coal | |
A Mining Camp | |
Kaolin | |
Iron | |
Oil | |
The Santa Fe Trail | |
Merchant Prince | |
Sellers' Landing | |
Pack Peddlers | |
Itinerant Craftsmen | |
Shawneetown Banks | |
Farm Life | p. 156 |
Marking Livestock | |
Stock Drives | |
Hog-Killing Time | |
Soft Soap | |
Holing Up Food for Winter | |
Sassafras Tea and Sallet | |
Foraging Boys | |
Gritted Meal | |
Sorghum | |
Persimmons | |
Egyptian Cotton | |
Tobacco | |
Castor Oil | |
Rail Fences | |
Hedge Fences | |
Farmer's Union | |
Early Schools | p. 185 |
Rectorville School | |
Other Kinds of Teachers | |
Illinois' First Academy | |
Shiloh College | |
One Hundred Years as a College Town | |
Changes at Southern | |
A Female Seminary | |
The College at Creal Springs | |
Hayward College | |
The College in the Hills | |
A Many-Sided School | |
The First Teachers' Union | |
A Night on the Old School Ground | |
Holidays | p. 213 |
The New Year's Ancient Customs | |
The Early French Were a Jolly Lot | |
Saint Valentine's Day | |
All Fools Day | |
Memorial Day | |
Thanksgiving | |
Christmas on the Cache | |
Christmas Lore | |
Churches | p. 231 |
Our Oldest Church | |
Peter Cartwright | |
Moravians | |
Mormons | |
Law & Order | p. 240 |
Punishments | |
Scrambled Records and Speedy Justice | |
Old Jails | |
Flatheads and Regulators | |
People Disliked Horse Thieves | |
Self-Defense | |
A Duel | |
Slavery & Servitude | p. 254 |
Early Slavery | |
Slave Laws and Practices | |
Binding Out | |
Priscilla | |
Black John | |
A Quiet Railroad | |
Monument to a Slave's Master | |
Abolitionist Lovejoy | |
Old Slave House | |
Emancipation Day | |
The Military | p. 272 |
Fort de Chartres | |
Fort Massac | |
An Incredible March | |
Lewis and Clark at Wood River | |
A Mexican War Diary | |
Fort Defiance | |
A Legend of the Civil War | |
Mound City National Cemetery | |
There Were No Neutrals | |
Grand Army of the Republic | |
Soldiers' Reunions | |
Along the Rivers | p. 299 |
Boats that Seldom Returned | |
The King of the Keelboatmen | |
Ferries | |
Showboats | |
Shipways | |
The Shipyard Bell | |
The Six Sultanas | |
The "Lee" and the "Natchez" | |
Landmarks | p. 313 |
The Devil's Bake Oven | |
Big Hill | |
An Abandoned Mausoleum | |
A Deserted Cemetery | |
The Henson House | |
An Oversized Washstand | |
A Boy Carves His Name | |
Millstone Knob | |
Brickey House | |
Wiley-Rosson Home | |
Rose Hotel | |
The Jarrot Mansion | |
Our Oldest Courthouse | |
Towns-Old & Older | p. 336 |
A Shifting River Dooms a Town | |
Bowlesville | |
Vanished Ewington | |
Bainbridge | |
Brownsville | |
Elvira | |
Palmyra | |
America | |
A Vanished City | |
Elizabethtown | |
Cobden | |
Elsah | |
New Harmony | |
New Haven | |
Sainte Genevieve | |
Cahokia | |
Random Stories | p. 366 |
Center of Population | |
Cholera | |
Epitaphs | |
The Night the Stars Fell | |
A Horse Race | |
Big Stakes at the Race Track | |
Before Alcoholics Anonymous | |
Rifles and Shooting Matches | |
Rag-Wheel Boy | |
The Musical Forty | |
Buffalo | |
Passenger Pigeons | |
Bells | |
Epilogue: I Retire | p. 390 |
Index | p. 393 |
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